Bolt to run in Australia for next three years
The world's fastest man wants to run with Australia's fastest boy. Usain Bolt wants Jack Hale to be on his team for the new Nitro Athletics series in Melbourne in February next year.
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Michael Gleeson
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
In John we trust: Athletics' unlikely saviour
Several years ago Athletics Australia held a press conference with John Steffensen. They were never sure what Steffensen would say at the best of times but knew that when he spoke he got people's attention. So they held their breath and offered him up.
Nitro could chase Jenneke and Breen, despite no sport funding
Unloved for high performance, hurdler Michele Jenneke and sprinter Melissa Breen could be sought as sports entertainers for Nitro.
Top woman in sport is a man
The best woman in world sport is a man. You read that right. The International Olympic Committee has given its top award for women and sport to a man.
Bolt takes stake in Nitro
Usain Bolt will not only be paid to run in Melbourne he will be an equity partner in the new athletics concept that is hoped to re-energise athletics like Twenty 20 cricket and be taken to the rest of the world
Coach Bolt ready for Melbourne with his All Stars
Usain Bolt's career has been about making his sport fun and watchable so the idea of a new concept for his sport that tries to do both makes it both.
Bolt agrees to run in Australia this summer
The fastest man ever the world, the world's greatest ever athlete, Usain Bolt, will race in Australia this summer.
Aussie men don't rate in Commonwealth
Not one Australian male track and field athlete is ranked the best in the Commonwealth.
Renowned commentator Norman May dies, aged 88
Renowned Australian broadcaster Norman May has died, aged 88.
Starc jumps into final while the world watches Bolt
Brandon Starc had one jump left. It was the last jump of the night. It was the last jump of a night that no one, it seemed, was watching the high jump.
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